Cooking Two Dinners - Arg.
By TheIrishClog
@TheIrishClog (985)
Ireland
April 10, 2012 11:02am CST
My hand has been forced.
Since 'discovering' my pork allergy, I have cut it out completely. The two separate days I chanced a sliver of it, it severely aggravated my poor digestive system for over 24 hours. Obviously if you're eating something that doesn't agree with you consistently, then you don't notice it as much as when you cut it out completely and then suddenly eat some. Boy did I suffer. Never again! Pork is totally off the menu.
As a result, my poor man hasn't had a pork chop in quite some time. I asked him today what meat he wanted for dinner before I went to the supermarket to pick some up and he lit up and said 'pig!'.
So, he's getting pork chops and potatoes, whereas I'm going to have some veggie stirfry.
Now, if this were a different situation and there were kids not wanting certain foods, they could take a hike - eat it or go hungry. It's how I was raised and it never did me any harm.
How about you - do you have reasons you end up cooking two completely different dinners?
5 responses
@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
26 Apr 12
We usually don't have different dinners here, but if I were in your situation, I would have done it too.
My b/f is one of those that likes his food spicy..very spicy..like the temperature of the sun spicy. He usually specifies which piece of what is ours and which ones are his..lol.
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@TheIrishClog (985)
• Ireland
7 May 12
After some time I'm starting to get the hang of this. I try to make sure that I have one main part of the meal like rice, pasta or potatoes, preferably the veggies too and that way I only have to cook a different meat.
The other day we had pasta and I had a bolognese sauce with mince beef, while he had a carbonara sauce with fried bacon bits. It meant we were both happy and I could make my sauce as garlic, peppers, onions and spice filled as I liked!
@Loverbear (4918)
• United States
10 Apr 12
I don't have reasons to cook two completely different dinners. Bill, my boyfriend, is pretty easy to please. I just don't have to cook much in the way of veggies.
I was raised the same way, eat what was put on the table or go hungry. The only time that the rule was changed was when the veggies were either string beans or spinach. Mom would always double the amount of string beans and spinach when we had them with dinner. I would eat string beans and spinach like nobody's business! We would never have any of those veggies left over for another meal. I would eat a whole package and more of each of the veggies. My brother would turn green as I would wolf down tons of spinach and suck up string after string of the beans. He wasn't a big veggie eater. I still love my veggies, I ate my way through the corn (which is really a grain) last night. I ate more veggie than I did meat or potato salad.
I guess that might constitute a separate meal. When I fix dinner for Bill and myself, I fix veggies that Bill usually won't touch so I will either do corn on the cob or frozen corn for him.
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@TheIrishClog (985)
• Ireland
11 Apr 12
It would appear a lot of us are stuck with men that won't eat the veggies we put in front of them.
My man isn't a fan of spinach, whereas I love it with a passion. Broccoli, Cauliflower, string beans, all of them, I love them! He'll eat carrots and peas and sometimes he'll pick at veggies that are mixed in with stuff. I have to say, he's better than some of the men I've cooked for, but nowhere near where I'd like him to be.
I used to hate sprouts as a child, but as I grew up, I grew to love them. Now, at Christmas, I can't get enough of them!
@Anne18 (11029)
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10 Apr 12
I cooke two dinners every night, cook meat for the family and I'm not eating meat or fish. I can cook up to three different meals, we all have the same veggies but if I'm cooking say chicken in a sauce and one of the children don't like the sauce I'll cook there chicken so they like it.
Sometimes if I'm in a rush then you can't be hungry or if its something I cooked last week and they liked it and then change there mind. Am I making any sense??LOL
@TheIrishClog (985)
• Ireland
10 Apr 12
Plenty of sense Anne! More power to you that you can cook up to three different meals in the one evening. Personally, I do well with just the one. Our hob isn't very big, one of the rings doesn't work and I'm usually quite pressed for time, so it's usually a bit of like it or lump it with me.
The odd time, like now with the pork or if I really want to eat something specific that he can't tolerate, I'll do two dinners.
Sometimes we're both eating rice but I have a veggie stir fry or plain sweet and sour from Uncle Ben's and he has chicken and mushroom sauce - that I don't mind too much...
@Anne18 (11029)
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11 Apr 12
Thank you, but I only cook the meat two/three ways. I won't cook different meats etc.
So if my hubby ans son want tropical chicken bake, which the other two don't like then I cook them plain roast chicken. If i'm cooking fish in a sauce that some don't like they just get plain boring fish. If hubby and son want fish fingers which the twins don't like then I do them chicken nuggets. And so on. Its quite easy really and it means everyone gets something they like and no one gets left out.
I just eat veggies fruit and baked spuds and eggs and cheese
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@ecaron (678)
• Canada
11 Apr 12
It's too bad that you can't eat pork. Nowadays, it's good for you, in moderation, of course. I don't often make separate meals for my husband and I , we usually like and eat the same things. He doesn't like green beans or cabbage so I don't usually cook those but pretty much anything else. He likes food a bit spicy and I don't so he just puts hot sauce on his food, to remedy that.
@TheIrishClog (985)
• Ireland
11 Apr 12
It's the opposite in this house. I like some of my foods (especially spaghetti bolognese) fixed with a few spices (not too hot mind you!) and he'd prefer not to add any at all!
Since we started growing herbs in the garden he's taken a shine to trying to add a variety of those to anything that's being cooked though, which is progress lol.
@honest_efforts100 (1607)
• India
20 Jul 12
Sometimes it happens. I don’t eat many cereals since they give heart burns. Just the other day my brother decides to have rice and some cereals since for quit sometime now we have not had cereals cooking in the kitchen. It was either I cook both dinners or I go check myself in the nearby café.
